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Re-Conceptualizing the Xbox Platform

Jonathan Hayes, Design Director, Xbox Platform, Microsoft Corporation

Michael Jager, Creative Director, Jager Di Paola Kemp Design

 

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Jonathan Hayes
Michael Jager

The first challenge for the next generation of the Microsoft’s Xbox was for our product group to restructure the organization and create a design culture with real vitality. The second was managing the research and design of successful object/experiences that worked across national cultures. The final challenge was finding a strategy and a design language that humanized the brand: Xbox 360 had to leverage existing Xbox equity to maintain a hold on its core audiences, while at the same time welcoming the world into the Xbox culture.